Cara botched it because he made it look fake as fuck. It's okay to slip and fall, but don't non chalantly hop off, and then half ass sell the fall. Then get up, and redo the finish. It looked fake as hell and I know it killed the match for a lot of the fans live. You could hear the groans.
I didn't think it looked fake at all. What looked fake about it? He fell to the ground, knew his opponent was ready to be finished, and so he forced himself to pop back up while Primo was still dazed from the beating and the fall onto the top turnbuckel. So Sin Care forced himself back up and got the finish.
American mainstream fans HATE it when something looks too fake. That's why contrived flippity guys haven't really ever gotten over unless they set up the spots to seem possible and add emotion.
Agree completely, I just disagree with how fake you're claiming this looked. Yes, it was an obvious "botch" (even though it wasn't really a botch as much of an situational accident...a botch usually refers to a fixable mistake between wrestlers, this was just one guy slipping), but no matter what the two guys would have done, there was nothing which would erase the memory of the botch. So, in that, the match had no choice because to be seen as messed up, but as far as a "reality" sense goes, I think it made perfect logical sense for it to play out the way it did.
Yes, each segment on the show is constrained by the time allotment they are given by the bookers. In the WWE, you have to be very precise, because they run a huge show with lots of people on it, and they have to make sure they break at the appropriate times for the advertisers. Sin Cara and Primo got quite a bit of time for their match, but they really didn't have much time for the finish after the botch. So they had to hurry up and get the spot pulled off so the WWE could keep the rest of the segment on schedule.
How about this, instead of hopping off and halfway selling the fall, he hops down on his feet (showing agility) and then as he gets up, primo puts up a fight before getting hit a few times, then same "spectacular" finisher.
That's great an all when you've had over 4 hours to think about it.
However, Sin Cara didn't have over 4 hours to think about it, he knew his match time was about up, Primo lost his balance causing Sin Care to lose his, and Sin Cara legitimately fell to the ground. Meanwhile, Primo also knows the match time is about up, and so he's just sitting on the top rope waiting for Sin Care to come finish the match.
It's amazing the things you can think of after 4 hours, but trying having to come up with all of that inside of 15 seconds, including the falling "hops down on his feet" part WHILE he's falling which only took 1 second. I doubt you could have thought of all that on the fly too.
Before you say "how's he supposed to do that on the fly". Just remember he's supposed to be a world class performer. that's kind of what they do. the finish was just awkward as hell.
Being a world class performer doesn't change the fact that he had less than a second to think of all of that while he was on his way down to the ground. Your whole situation starts with him landing on his feet, something he would have had to think of in a split second, WHILE he's trying to figure out how to stay on the turnbuckel.
I'm sorry, but your being kind of unrealstic with your expectations. Being a world class performer doesn't speed up the mind's ability to think and process.
I guarantee that if Cena went for a top rope FU, got pulled off, halfway sold the fall, then did the finish exactly as they'd started doing it that this board would have exploded.
You might very well be right. Of course, that has no bearing on this discussion between you and me because I wouldn't be one of the ones exploding. I'd be here doing the exact same thing I'm doing now.
